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unusual facts about New Worlds



Authentic Science Fiction

By 1953 the British sf market was going through a metamorphosis similar to the one going in the US at the same time: poor quality sf markets were failing, and the result was a reduced but active market, with four magazines: Authentic, New Worlds, Science Fantasy, and Nebula Science Fiction.

Memories of the Space Age

The stories, set at Cape Canaveral, originally appeared in the magazines Ambit, Fantastic Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, New Worlds and Playboy.

Speculative poetry

They were succeeded by more serious venues including the US-based The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF) (1949–), the UK-based flagship of the New Wave movement New Worlds while it was under the editorship of Michael Moorcock between 1964 and 1970, and the annual reprint anthologies of F&SF and The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Judith Merril.

The Star Virus

The Star Virus is the first science fiction novel by Barrington J. Bayley, expanded from a 1964 short story originally published in New Worlds.


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24-hour analog dial

George Orwell uses the 12-hour and 24-hour dials to symbolize the old and new worlds in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Chavenage House

Two productions have be shot at Chavenage in 2013, 'The Unknown Heart' based on a idea by Rosamunde Pilcher as well as Channel 4's new historical drama 'New Worlds'.

Rail transport in Guatemala

Adventure traveler Richard Halliburton described Guatemala's former main railroad line in New Worlds to Conquer (1929).

Star Trek: New Worlds

Star Trek: New Worlds is set in the year 2287, shortly after the events of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

Star Trek: New Worlds is a strategy game published in 2000 by Interplay in which the player can choose to command the forces of the United Federation of Planets, Klingons or Romulans.